Enterprise Backup & Disaster Recovery Architect

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company seeks a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid to optimize enterprise backup and recovery for federal IT environments. The role designs backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows to support business continuity.

Responsibilities include leading complex restores, encryption, and monitoring integration while mentoring junior staff and ensuring compliance with data protection standards and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 4–7 years of experience in data backup and recovery, storage engineering, or related IT infrastructure roles.
• Proficient understanding of backup and recovery principles for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Veritas NetBackup, Veeam, CommVault in medium to large environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to resolve complex issues independently.
• Experience using monitoring tools and documenting backup configurations, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain the required investigation level. U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain backup solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, including policy design and capacity planning.
• Analyze backup infrastructure performance and tune concurrency, bandwidth usage, and storage tiers to meet targets.
• Perform complex restore operations such as point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery exercises.
• Implement backup encryption, key management, and RBAC to protect data in transit and at rest.
• Document and test disaster recovery runbooks and coordinate drills with operations teams.
• Integrate backup systems with monitoring and reporting solutions for dashboards and compliance metrics.
• Troubleshoot backup job failures and drive root-cause analysis across the backup environment.
• Mentor junior staff, sharing best practices for data protection and documentation.

Skills

Backup & recovery expertise

Analytical problem solving

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent

Tools

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

CommVault

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company seeks a Backup and Recovery Specialist, Mid to optimize enterprise backup and recovery for federal IT environments. The role designs backup policies, storage architectures, and recovery workflows to support business continuity.

Responsibilities include leading complex restores, encryption, and monitoring integration while mentoring junior staff and ensuring compliance with data protection standards and reporting.